Immigration judge Yul-mi Cho
EOIR records Yul-mi Cho as a serving immigration judge, code YMC, with 3,231 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 354 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2023–2025, 45 were granted (12.7%) and 309 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 36.2% at the Chelmsford, MA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 35.6% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 3,231
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 0.7% decided in absentia
- 13,744
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 12.7%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2023–2025
- 45 granted of 354 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2023–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 35.6% granted
- 103,991 of 292,273 asylum applications decided
- The Chelmsford, MA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 36.2% granted
- 785 of 2,166 asylum applications decided
For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.
Over the 3 fiscal years from 2023 to 2025, this judge granted 45 asylum applications and denied 309 — 12.7% of those decided. A further 226 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Yul-mi Cho completed 1,943 proceedings in FY2025, against 1 in FY2016
Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,943 | 2 | 15 | 137 | 108 |
| FY2024 | 945 | 8 | 22 | 111 | 78 |
| FY2023 | 336 | 11 | 8 | 61 | 39 |
| FY2022 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.
Where the proceedings were
The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.
Sources
- EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 1, 2026
- EOIR immigration judges and courts
Data retrieved